The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


PARAMOUNT" in Leavenworth, Kan, has an
orchard containing 437 acres, with 10000 apple
trees This IS claimed to be the largest apple
orchard in the United States
EIGHT EMPLOYEES of the meters department
of the Philadelphia mint were discharged the
10 her ca because cha coal marks were found
| in bars OF silver which they had made
r. c. o. BENJAMIN, a colored man who has
been granted permission to practice law at Los
Angeles is reported to be the first member or
his race admitted to the California bar
COMPLAINT is made in Detroit that the course
of studies in the local High School is of too Sc
we're a standard, and that the institution is little
else than an adjunct to the State University.
Gov. LUCE gave it as his opinion, based on in
vestigation, that a majority of the girls at the
Adrian Industrial School went to the bad by
fr-quenting skating Kinks and the salvation
Army.
THE old Keystone mine at Salisbury, on Mo-
nongahela river, has been abandoned. the coal
having been worked out 1t is considered the
historic pit of the Monongahela valley, coal
having been mined there over century ago.
ONE of the most successful bill collectors of
Chicago makes many a difficult collection by
pretending TO be deaf, and making the delin-
quent yell his reason for not paying at the top
of his voice, so that it is heard by every one in
the vicinity.
decided to send squads of his soldiers to Zulu
land and South America Some of his forces
| have already reached Jerusalem, and the streets
of the Holy city resound with their "amenS
and the jingle of their tambourines.
In NOVEMBER, 1854, the grand jury of Fairfax,
Va, indicted Daniel French, of that county, for
tending of seconds" The act referred to was
the raising of a second crop of tobacco in one
year, which was then used as currency, and only
a prescribed quantity could be raised.
COUNTERFEIT SILVER DOLLARS made of cast
| iron, heavily plated with silver, are in crcula-
| ton in the vicinity of Creston, Iowa. They are
such a perfect substitute that even acid will
not affect them, and they can only be detected
| by the ring. The dates they bear are mostly
1884
FoRTY-FIvE YEARS AGO there wasn't postage
stamp in the United States, but in the last
twelve months the people of this country havv
individually and severally put their tongues out
96S 341 goo times to moisten the postage stamps
for the billions of letters and millions of news
papers, periodicals and parcels that are carried
and delivered by the government.
| EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS are being made by
the Presbyterian Board of Indian Schools TO
educate the Indians of Arizona. At Tucson
| they are building an So 900 school house. Fifty
| acres of land have been bought on the Santa
Cruz river, where the young Indians will be in
| structed i'll farming, and another building to
cost Sc, 900 will soon be erected where $50 pupils
| can be accommodated.
WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT has been one of the
largest purchasers of the late King of Bavarias
effects. He has helped himself to the works of
art, and chosen a whole suite of royal furniture,
| besides Offering large price for one of the
| royal residences, but at that trade the govern
ment rebeled and told Mr. American there was
| a limit TO even its greed. What the buyer of
| all this luxury intends to do with it is nobodys
| affair, but it seems that having more spare cash
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| good thing for bankrupt Bavaria.
THE truste S of wellesley College have Sc
lected president of the institution Miss Helen
A. Shafer to fill the vacancy caused by the mar
ri ge of Alice E. Freeman Miss Shafer is a col
| lege-bred woman, having obtained the Master
Degree at Oberlin. For several years after grad
uation she was associated with Prof. Harris and
| other well known educators in the St Louis
| schools. This is her eleventh year at Wellesley
| Cole e, she having been called to the Chair of
Mathematics in 1873. One of the Harvard pro
| fesssors recently said of her that he did not
| know that a woman could gain such proficiency
| in mathematics until he had studied the work of
| Prof Shafer. In personal appearance she is
| slight and graceful.
JUST how the use of tobacco was regarded in
New England in the early days two laws show.
| One was made at Harvard soon after the foun-
dation of the institution and read: mo scholars
| shall take tobacco unless permitted by the
President with the consent of their parents and
| guardians, and on good reason first given by
physician, and then in a sober ana private man.
! ner." The other is in the old Massachusetts
| colony laws, and preScribes the punishment for
| any who shall smoke tobacco within
| twenty poles of any house, or who shall take
| tobacco in any inn or common victualing house,
| except in private room, so as that neither the
innster of said house nor any other guest shall
take offense thereat."
| In the recent election in New York State Miss
Griffin, of the Third Oswego district, was chosen
| as School Commissioner, over two competitors,
| both male. She is a practical teacher and
| graduate of the State Normal school at Oswego.
Quite number of women candidates for School
Commissioner were nominated in different parts
| of the State. but Miss Griffin only was elected.
! The law in New York gives women vote at
school elections, and makes them eligible to
| offices on school boards, In many country dis
| tricts woBlen attend school meetings, which are
now held in August, and several have been
chosen on school boards. The office of School
| Commissioner embraces a considerable territory
| and usually eighty to 100 schools. 1t requires
| the entire time of the person holding it to dis
charge its duties properly, visiting schools hear
| ing examinations and granting certificates to
| teachers.
GEoFFREY HAwLEY the handsome young lead
| ing juvenile actor Of Joseph JefferSons COM
pany, has a strong literary talent in addition to
| his marked gifts as an actor. For several years
he has been writing verse that steadily i'm
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| that he will shortly bring out a long skit in
| rhyme about celebrated people of the stage
| The volume will be illustrated by Matt Morgan
| in colors, and will probably be published by
| Brentano Brothers. The authors full name is
| Godfrey Hawley Chapman, and he has recently
| fallen heir to a large fortune. But the fact
doesn't at all lessen his desire to continue on the
! stage or to retain his present position in the
| company of Mr.. Jefferson, whose skill as an
| actor and lovable character as a man have
greatly endeared him to all the members of his
organization. Mr.. jefferson, by the way will
continue to play for only two weeks more, and
will then go to his Southern plantation for the
! cold months, resuming his travels in the early
| spring
| TALKING about his coming visit to the South
/ and the hostile attitude of the colored people
| toward him, Evangelist Moody says that the
| trouble down South when he was there was due
| to the negroes more than to the whites AL
| though usually there the whites worship in one
| building, and the blacks In another still at tn
Moody meetings all were welcome and seats
| reserved for the blacks but the &C lored people
| insisted that he should refuse 10 preacA unless
| the white people would throw aside their life
| long pre- iudices and allow them perfect equality
| as to seats and positions In church services The
| committees offered to divide the churches al
| lowing the coored people one side and the
whites the other half, but that would not do
| They were bound to sit in the same seats with
| the whites, or not at all. 'As ] only STONED
| two or three days in town." said Mr. Moody
| II could not stop and enter this fight of the
| races chat has been going on for a century |
| went TO preach the Gospel as an evan gelist not